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Economists devote too much attention to international flows of goods and services and not enough to international flows of ideas. Traditional trade flows are an imperfect substitute for flows of the underlying ideas. The simplest textbook trade model shows that a welfare-enhancing move toward...
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globalization (1985-2005), there has been some convergence of business cycle fluctuations among the group of industrial economies …
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W. Arthur Lewis argued that a new international economic order emerged between 1870 and 1913, and that global terms of trade forces produced rising primary product specialization and de-industrialization in the poor periphery. More recently, modern economists argue that volatility reduces growth...
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world commodity and factor markets, history offers an unambiguous positive correlation between globalization and convergence … years were also ones of economic autarky and 'de-globalization', while the rest were ones of increasing globalization in …. But is the correlation spurious? When the pre-World War I years are examined in detail, the correlation turns out to be …
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This paper reexamines the ability of the Solow-type growth models to explain the pattern of cross-country growth rates. Recent authors, most notably Mankiw, Romer and Weil [1990], have argued that differences in national growth rates are compatible with the view that each country has access to a...
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This paper addresses the interactions between globalization, the quality of democracy, and economic convergence using … and globalization. To reflect context, as defined by space (geography) and time (history), we control for the distance to … and globalization put forward by Eichengreen and Leblang (2008) for the period 1870-2000. Focusing on the more recent wave …
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What determines the technology that a country adopts? While many factors affect technological adoption, the efficiency of the country's financial system may also play a significant role. To address this question, a dynamic contract model is embedded into a general equilibrium setting with...
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Standard neoclassical growth models rarely admits international factor mobility: convergence may result from factor accumulation in a closed economy, or from technology transfer. Conventional models are thus poorly equipped to explain the contribution of international factor flows to convergence...
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which financial globalization can be a substitute for reforms of domestic financial system. Inefficient financial system and … investment. While financial globalization always improves the welfare of a developed country with a good financial system, its … the world than many developing countries. A noteworthy feature of this theory is that financial and property rights …
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financial world is not flat because poor governance prevents firms from being widely held and from taking full advantage of … financial globalization. Poor governance has implications for corporate finance as well as for macroeconomics. I show that poor …
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